Sr Principal Enterprise Architect

Waters Corporation•Milford, MA

23h

About The Position

Waters is seeking a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise-wide architectural leadership during a pivotal period of transformation. This role is responsible for shaping Waters’ long-term technology direction while playing a critical leadership role in the integration of BD businesses, platforms, and data into the Waters ecosystem. As a senior individual contributor with broad influence, the Principal Enterprise Architect will operate at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution—guiding complex architectural decisions, enabling large-scale integration programs, and ensuring that near-term transformation choices support long-term scalability, resilience, and value creation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related senior technical leadership roles
Demonstrated experience leading architecture for large-scale, enterprise transformation or integration initiatives
Proven track record operating as a senior individual contributor, influencing strategy and outcomes without direct line management
Experience working within complex, global, matrixed organizations
Hands-on experience with enterprise platforms such as ERP, data, integration, and cloud technologies in a regulated or large-enterprise environment
Enterprise data, analytics, and AI strategy
Master data management and data governance
Data architecture and data engineering
Advanced analytics and AI-enabled decision support
Executive communication and influence
Change management and organizational adoption
Agile / Scrum leadership and delivery

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

Define, evolve, and govern Waters’ enterprise architecture across business capabilities, applications, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, and security.
Translate business strategy into actionable target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders on complex trade-offs involving cost, speed, risk, and scalability.
Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures to drive consistency and reuse across the enterprise.
Act as the enterprise architecture authority for the BD Integration program, ensuring alignment with Waters’ strategic and technical direction.
Guide architectural decisions across ERP, commercial platforms, data, integration layers, and infrastructure.
Lead architectural input into master data strategy, system rationalization, integration patterns, and TSA exit planning.
Ensure reuse of Waters’ platforms, patterns, and standards while avoiding unnecessary duplication of legacy BD environments.
Provide architectural governance across cross-functional workstreams, managing dependencies, sequencing, and risk throughout the integration lifecycle.
Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns to support innovation, efficiency, and future growth.
Develop and maintain enterprise-level architecture artifacts, including capability models, reference architectures, and standards repositories.
Mentor and influence architects, engineers, and technical leaders, raising architectural maturity across the organization.
Enable faster, higher-quality decision-making by bringing structure, clarity, and enterprise perspective to complex initiatives.